Chandigarh civic body to finalise four MoUs by May-end

TNN | Apr 10, 2019, 11.51 AM IST

CHANDIGARH: The Chandigarh municipal corporation will finalise four crucial memorandum of understandings (MoUs) on starting smart paid parking system in the city, run public toilets, finalise sanitation contract and terms and condition of the night food street, soon after the model code of conduct is relaxed by May end.

Municipal commissioner K K Yadav has constituted four different committees of senior officers of the MC to prepare the request for proposal (RFP) of all these projects so that the RFP can be discussed with the members of the general house during the monthly meeting and after approval, tender can be advertised to start these projects.

For smart parking project, a committee, led by additional municipal commissioner, will submit the report. For public toilet committee and sanitation committee, special municipal commissioner will chair the meeting.

For night food street committee, additional municipal commissioner will hold a meeting of the committee. All the three committees have technical officers of engineering department and accounts branch so that construction and finance related rules and regulation can be prepared in a manner which can give benefit to the civic body authority to run these projects.

"All the four committees have been given two weeks' time to prepare the request for proposal and submit the detailed report. We aim at finalising the RFP of all the four projects after the model code conduct is relaxed. We will table the report in the general house meeting for a detailed discussion with the members and a decision will the taken after the elections," said K K Yadav, municipal commissioner.

All the four projects of the civic body are highly revenue generating projects.